The Arizona sentinel., 1887-04-02
HE FIcHTs BACK.
OPEN LETTER FROM T. r. PARRISH TO

To {. c. Hughes, Editor of the Star,
 Tucson, 4. T.
 You have seen it to mako charges against m-, both vindictive and false. You have, in your cowardly way, sought through islander and vitupera- tion to degrade me, personally and officially, before the people of Arizona, because refused to advance your claims for Commissioner of Immigra, tion. In order that the public may understand the motive actuating you, 1 extract from letter written by you to a gentleman in Prescott, bearing date January lst, 1887. In referring to me in connection with the office you say;
 "I am satisfied that Hamilton ha. no show ''for appointment, and why Parrish should ''be candidate, when both Governor Zu- lick and he have given me SO much en. ''couragement, is difficult to understand. "If he does get away with it. let me say to 'you on the quiet. it will end the political ''career of two ambitious but very shallow politicians.
 Of course you knew you were lying when you said that I had ever given you any encouragement in the matter. You seemed to have believed that held the ear of the Governor to the extent that could make or mar the ambitions of any applicants fer office. In this you were mistaken, for seldom have I known who were to receive ex. ecutive appointments until directed by the Governor to fill out the commits sions. 1 have never attempted to in- fiuence him in those matters, for which he alsne he is responsible. If mistakes are made he muse bear the censure.
 In truth, so far as you are concern ed. had there been any necessity to defeat your nomination to any official position, I should have called atten- ton of Governor Zulick to the fact that you had been appointed to the office of Attorney General of Arizona by Governor Stafford, and removed by him upon cha ges sustained in an ex. animation held before him. The prin- cipal charge being that you conspired with another party to black mail the Laouzinsky Brss. out of $5,000 in connection with a mining claim in, what is now, Graham county. To re- fresh your memory in this matter, l would advise you to read and print the atfidaxits- connected herewith, pub lished in the Tucson Citizen some twelve years ago.
 After this you became a Democrat, but fer revenue only. In the Star, you have always kept your eye so con stantly upon the s"splinter" that. had it not been for your oft-repeated asser- tion that you edited the leading Dem ocratic paper of the Territory, no one would have discovered a 6 taint of Democracy about you. I came into the Territory in July, 1879, and short ly after made your acquaintance,
 h 1880, after endorsing a platform favoring the Territorial tax on bullion you accepted a fee from tho mining corporations to advocate the repeal oi the law. In 1882 you proposed to place the name of the Republican nom- inee for Congress at the head of the columns of the Star for the insignifi cent sum of $500. You offered to do the same thing in 1884, if paid a. con sideration. During the canvas last fall you pulled down the County Dem ocratic ticket and refused to hoist it until pad S750. After printing the tickets, for which you were well paid, you refused to surrender them until further contribution of $250 was paid you. You became interested in land grant scheme and then attemp- ted to secure the appointment, first, of Surveyor General, and then of Land Register of Arizona. Failing in both you have persistently misrepresented the national administration. You demanded money to reprint an article in defense of Governor Znlick's action in removing Directors Hatch, Lincoln and Stewart from the Asylum Board, and failing to get 1t you have attacked, on every convenient occasion, him and his administration.
 Your idea of journalism is to levy bIackmail upon all men and things where possible. False to every princi- pie, recreant to every trust, you seem to have been placed ny the Almighty upon this terrestial sphere an llustra- tion of all that is dcspicabIe iu human ity, and demonstration that mankind does not change but that the world can furnish at least one type similar to that found nineteen hundred years ago in Judas, who betrayed his master for thirty pieces of silver.
 Unfortunately you are in . position to annoy respectable people,. but no one who knows you would ever think of holding you responsible morally for what you do or say. Without moral sense or consciousness of right you are the willing slave of others. It is in decent however in your masters that they do not teach their parrot better manners. I. E. PARRISH
 Prescott, March Is, 1886.
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